Do you have a spare keyboard? My daughter put it next to her regular keyboard and her cat will swipe at the “cat” keyboard while she uses hers. She started by placing treats or kibble on the cat keyboard and hitting it between using her keyboard. It could work.
My cat attacks the paper coming out of the printer - especially if I'm printing double sided and the paper has the nerve to try to go backwards into the printer!!
I once had an identical cat, exact same colouring and same facial markings.
We had a lot of cats around when I was growing up, so I was familiar with their foibles, but this one was an absolute handful - 24x7x365 😉
I got a U shaped acrylic thing that goes over the keyboard and you hands fit under (cramps your style a bit) and this has helped although the cats now lay on top of it sometimes. At least they aren’t pressing random key commands walking on the keyboard 😂
Ever use voice recognition software instead of typing? Over the years, I've tried all of them and currently use MS Word with that functionality. Especially useful in my early stream of consciousness phase of beginning a story and laying out the worldscape.
I tried it. I feel it works good if your dictating like reading of an existing text. That is not how my brain works when writing my own stories. What word puts on paper is so screwed up that it takes me more time to make sense of it and correct it than writing it myself in the first place.
I'd like to do that to write chess books but if I don't say prawn instead of pawn I get a row of asterisks **** and now I can't stop saying prawn at the club like toddlers do.
Having a cat is like giving writer's block a physical form and an attitude problem. Sometimes you just have to give up and do something else for a while.
Hey, who knows. With an infinite number of parallel universes, all with cats randomly whacking your fingers as you type, one of those parallels might produce your next great novel.
Who's to say it wouldn't be the John Scalzi in THIS universe? 🤨 Albeit the odds would be highly against it. 😆
Aaaaaawwww! Kitty just wants to play, Hooman! ;) Or...
"Everything in this place belongs to me, the cat, Hooman! You can use the computer when I say you can!" LOL
In the disaster movie where cats take over the world, I'll play the scientist no one really listens to until it's too late 😂
When my cat was an elder kitten (8-12 months old) I couldn't do ANYTHING without finger whacks. Write something with a pencil on a piece of paper? Whack. Water coloring? Whack and tipping over the water jar. Play the piano? Double whack with a side of cat-added glissando.
My kitten is like that (probably about 7-9 months old) constantly does stuff like that. Making the bed or folding laundry? You get a bap for every hand movement. Trying to sweep or mop is a total mess. She’s adorable though.
Same! 🤣 They also were fascinated every time I opened the oven for baking, to the point that I was genuinely afraid we'd have a Hansel-Gretel situation on our hands.
She’s more interested in the microwave but many years ago, my mother had an oven kitty. I’m fairly used to doing anything with caution. My cats are very clumsy and not graceful at all. lol
I went to the bathroom and when I got back I found that the code I'd been writing had been replaced by the technological age's equivalent of the subject in Scarlatti's keyboard sonata in G minor, Kp. 30*.
Somehow, it compiled and ran. It crashed with a segfault.
Hilarious. Deploy a distraction for your cat. Try an empty spool from thread a flat washer or a ball made from yarn on a string. If you drag it around a while you’ll get a break from working & entertainment from watching the cat. Otherwise, hang it up where the cat can reach it & give it a spin. 😆
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yes
I know that look
booping in three... two...
I feed her
I pet her
I walk within paw distance
Just about anything is better than so-called "A.I."
We had a lot of cats around when I was growing up, so I was familiar with their foibles, but this one was an absolute handful - 24x7x365 😉
My tortie knows the right level of claw in her "Attention Now Daddy!" taps.
#BookSky
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Who's to say it wouldn't be the John Scalzi in THIS universe? 🤨 Albeit the odds would be highly against it. 😆
"Everything in this place belongs to me, the cat, Hooman! You can use the computer when I say you can!" LOL
In the disaster movie where cats take over the world, I'll play the scientist no one really listens to until it's too late 😂
Working hard to make sure you don't burn out?😉
If you're really lucky, it'll be a dead mouse.
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Somehow, it compiled and ran. It crashed with a segfault.
* the "Cat Fugue".
"It was the best of times, it was the ptoktlroei38fokyl5p."
I'm not sure which is worse!